#standing

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. ↗

— George Savile

#difficulty #must #prince #trusting #undergo

I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#certain #coach #conflicts #could #happen

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in. ↗

— Dee Snider

#believe #believing #fighting #most #songs

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#applaud #britain #eastern #eastern europe #europe

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#complexity #country #opposed #something #understanding

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#beavers #better #between #bring #company

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#simplicity #understand #understanding

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#any #better #call #complexity #deserve

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

#because #before #beings #belief #better

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#call #city #close #come #contempt